Program

Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants

Period of Performance

12/1/2012 - 7/31/2018

Funding Totals (matching)

$500,000.00 (approved)
$500,000.00 (offered)
$500,000.00 (awarded)


Endowed Fellowship Program in History of Science, Medicine and Technology

FAIN: CH-51165-14

Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Philadelphia, PA 19106-2426)
Babak Ashrafi (Project Director: May 2013 to June 2019)

Endowment for research, dissertation writing and postdoctoral fellowships in the history of science, technology, and medicine.

The Center seeks to establish an endowment for its program of fellowships supporting research in the historical collections of its consortium member institutions by scholars in the humanities. This research examines and interprets changes in science, technology and medicine from the perspectives of intellectual, social and cultural history, as well as architecture, art history, English, philosophy and other humanities disciplines. The Center's fellowship programs started in 2007 and are ongoing.